Hello,Will the installer of BF4 allow user to select languege. I am from Poland but I would prefer to install English languege version - English voice, English menu, "English everywhere" , Seriously i really want to play in English, there's no "Option" for English, there is just Poland(Pollish) or Russia.Regards,byrkins32

We are seeing a rising amount of contacts regarding Russian and Polish players wanting to exchange their Russian/Polish version of Battlefield 4 for an English copy of the game. This copy of the game that these players have purchased costs less than the English version, it does not have an English language track included on the install and this is working as intended. As such, you should under no circumstance exchange a Russian copy of the game for an English copy of the game.

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EA_Barry
Community Manager
12 years ago
We are seeing a rising amount of contacts regarding Russian and Polish players wanting to exchange their Russian/Polish version of Battlefield 4 for an English copy of the game. This copy of the game that these players have purchased costs less than the English version, it does not have an English language track included on the install and this is working as intended. As such, you should under no circumstance exchange a Russian copy of the game for an English copy of the game.
ThandalNLyman
12 years ago
"But I'm willing to pay (extra) for the English version..." 😕mileysad:
CreateThreadEx
12 years ago
Isn't there any way to migrate to the multilingual version aside for hacking the game files? I want to be a legit customer.
Lamaboi
12 years ago
@eabarry wrote:
We are seeing a rising amount of contacts regarding Russian and Polish players wanting to exchange their Russian/Polish version of Battlefield 4 for an English copy of the game. This copy of the game that these players have purchased costs less than the English version, it does not have an English language track included on the install and this is working as intended. As such, you should under no circumstance exchange a Russian copy of the game for an English copy of the game.
Dear EABarry,
Last time I checked the basic edition of BF4(without any DLC and on top of that also PL/RU region locked) from your companies own ORIGIN store costs us Polish customers 169 PLN, that's pretty much the same value as the 34 GBP that UK customers pay for their boxed retail version of the game from online stores like Amazon(including the China Rising DLC). People in the US usually pay around 59 USD for their retail copy according to Amazon, which is more expensive by a whooping 6 to maybe 8 bucks compared to what we have to pay to obtain the game legally from ORIGIN. I don't know exactly how much the game costs in Russia and tbqh don't care much because Russia is not Poland nor a part of the EU, what bothers me though is the fact that each time a bigger EA title is being published here in Poland it usually ends up to have the same silly region restrictions regarding the language selection as our eastern neighbors. I can understand that EA is trying to stop people from exploiting the price difference because it's not good for business, but why are we legit paying customers being punished for this with an horribly amateurish localized version of the game? Why are you treating people who pay your company their hard earned money not only like second grade customers but also like idiots?
Anonymous
12 years ago
I'm sorry however my game version did not state "incomplete" or "stripped features". Please do not blame marketing/retailers for the inability to push a button to enable users to switch their language.
Not resolved.
ThandalNLyman
12 years ago
@dudemanbroboss; It is resolved as far as EA is concerned. There is NO legitimate way to do this.

You can complain about their distribution policies and practices, but that's a different matter.
The OP's question has been answered completely.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Ok, but I have inverse problem, I have English version of the game (which costs more) and I want to change it to Russian, how do I do it?
PreLighter
12 years ago
"We are seeing a rising amount of contacts regarding Russian and Polish players wanting to exchange their Russian/Polish version of Battlefield 4 for an English copy of the game. This copy of the game that these players have purchased costs less than the English version, it does not have an English language track included on the install and this is working as intended. As such, you should under no circumstance exchange a Russian copy of the game for an English copy of the game."
So why we had no language version choice for different prices? I would pay extra just to get the original language.
Poland is European country, not Russian.
sp0q
12 years ago
I just finished a chat with the US support. I won't paste the whole transcript here but the guy pretty much told me that the language isn't geographically locked to my butt's position bo to the key itself, so if I have a friend in US or UK I am more than free to ask him to buy one for me and I'll have access to english version.

He didn't say a word about it being illegal from EA's point of view. Obviously he couldn't sing under it, but I e-mailed myself an original transcript of the whole conversation (not a copy/paste, they have a button for that, so it's official and should be saved in their system also).

So this seems like a way to go, I wouldn't count on EA suddenly deciding to unlock it.
Anonymous
12 years ago
@eabarry
Can you elaborate as to why are Polish people able to use Russian but not English? I hope you folks are just trolling because this is unacceptable and not logical at all. Please correct this issue upstream, it is just a push of a button for you and better gaming experience for folks that have purchased this "incomplete" version of the game.